This is the “Exposed Cranium” nebula, also known as Nebula PMR 1. Located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela, it’s a massive, moribund star coming to the end of its fuel-burning ...

A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary ...

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 ...

The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, ...

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit One of the ...

At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star.